On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Joe Orton wrote:
> > Didn't Joe mean that it's wrong on Linux/x86_64 or am I misinterpreting his
> > email?
>
> Yup I did mean that. Linux/x86_64 is an example of a platform where you
> cannot put non-PIC code into a shared object. libtool does honour
> -prefer-non-pic on this platform, and hence will create broken shared
> objects. Therefore I would presume that -prefer-non-pic is not safe to
> use by default in the hope that libtool will prevent you shooting
> yourself in the foot.
Why can't we simply see this as a libtool bug?
Because we care about our users? :)
I think we should just hard code the platforms we know to work for now. We can revisit libtool if/when they fix their problems.
Andi
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